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De Havilland Mosquito PR XVI No NS508 parked at Mount Farm

COL 471

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: COL 471
  • Description: An RAF De Havilland Mosquito PR XVI No.NS508 parked at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella
82nd Fighter Squadron pilots relaxing outside the Squadron 'ready room': (left to right); Lieutenant Troy L Eggleston (killed in action, 26 November 1944), Captain Roland L Wolfe, Captain Winfield H Brown (later Squadron Operations Officer), Lieutenant Larry Nelson, late summer 1944.

HU 31937

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 31937
  • Description: 82nd Fighter Squadron pilots relaxing outside the Squadron 'ready room': (left to right); Lieutenant Troy L Eggleston (killed in action, 26 November...
British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.

HU 20930

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20930
  • Description: British prisoners of war tend their garden at Stalag Luft III.
Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp

HU 20928

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: IWM collections
  • Object Number: HU 20928
  • Description: Three British prisoners of war produce news sheets in one of the huts at Stalag Luft III PoW camp.
42-31844 The Swoose

UPL 83197

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83197
  • Description: A Group Lead Crew Back From Piombino, Italy Mission April 28, 1944. Standing, second from left, E. J. Campbell, Navigator; third from left, Fred...
Berton Almanzor

UPL 83190

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83190
  • Description: Sgt Berton F. Almanzor
Drummond brothers

UPL 83184

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83184
  • Description: LeRoy and brother Kennon Drummond.
LeRoy Drummond

UPL 83179

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83179
  • Description: Aviation cadet LeRoy Drummond
LeRoy Drummond

UPL 83174

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83174
  • Description: 1st Lt LeRoy Drummond
42-31844

UPL 83169

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83169
  • Description: Lt. Col. Frank Kurtz stands besides his wife, Margo Kurtz as she prepares to christen the aircraft, 42-31844, with a bottle of champagne in 1944.
D-Day Formation Schematic for 491st Bombardment Group (Page 2)

UPL 83164

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83164
  • Description: D-Day Formation Schematic for 491st Bombardment Group (Page 2)
D-Day Formation Schematic for 491st Bombardment Group (Page 1)

UPL 83155

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83155
  • Description: D-Day Formation Schematic for 491st Bombardment Group (Page 1)
Loading List for D-Day Mission

UPL 83139

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83139
  • Description: Loading List for D-Day Mission (Benjamin Douglas pilots B-24 42-110156
Original loading list for members of 491st (Lt. Benjamin Douglas) out of the US to ETO. Movement #28 on B-24 42-110156

UPL 83118

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83118
  • Description: Original loading list for members of 491st (Lt. Benjamin Douglas) out of the US to ETO. Movement #28 on B-24 42-110156
Erwin Schmidt

UPL 83090

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83090
  • Description: Erwin Schmidt, circa 1944.

UPL 56085

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 56085
  • Description: This describes the next image, media-56086: AN EIGHTH BOMBER COMMAND STATION. ENGLAND. 2nd Lt. Owen D. (Cowboy) Roane, pilot of the Eighth Air Force...
Dale Headlee

UPL 83074

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83074
  • Description: 1st Lt Dale C Headlee
Dale Headlee

UPL 83069

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83069
  • Description: 1st Lt Dale C Headlee
James Preston

UPL 83064

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83064
  • Description: 2nd Lt James O. Preston
Gordon Lindholm

UPL 83059

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 83059
  • Description: 2nd Lt Gordon G. Lindholm